, s - . . . . . . I ..s I I fII fII . . - . . . - - - - . . -.- 9< I: Io; J' . The North Slope of Alaska. The place we call the Arco Circle. It was the middle of nowhere until Atlantic Richfield made the first major oit strike on the North American continent in the last forty years. It's one of the coldest, most desolate, most inaccessible places on the face of the earth.